# Delcy Rodríguez ## Identity and office Delcy Rodríguez has been acting president of Venezuela since 5 January 2026 and was executive vice-president from 14 June 2018. As of September 2026 she is a living acting president. Nicolás Maduro is the live captured president. This run does not mint a cleaner twin. She is not a separate democrat. On 25 September 2018 the U.S. Treasury designated her under E.O. 13692 with [Cilia Flores](/people/cilia-flores), Vladimir Padrino López, and Jorge Rodríguez, stating that Maduro had given her and her brother senior positions to maintain power ([Treasury](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm495)). OFAC’s same-day SDN update listed RODRIGUEZ GOMEZ, Delcy Eloina, DOB 18 May 1969. On 3 January 2026 U.S. forces captured Maduro and Cilia Flores in Caracas. The TSJ Constitutional Chamber, sentencia N° 0001-2026, ordered Rodríguez to assume and exercise as encargada all presidential faculties to guarantee administrative continuity, and treated the absence as temporary rather than an absolute vacancy ([TSJ](https://www.tsj.gob.ve/-/tsj-ordena-a-delcy-rodriguez-asumir-el-cargo-de-presidenta-e-tras-secuestro-del-primer-mandatario); [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-supreme-court-orders-delcy-rodriguez-become-interim-president-2026-01-04/)). She was sworn on 5 January 2026 by her brother Jorge Rodríguez, president of the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly). He remains unresolved. A first woman to exercise the presidency is identity. It does not rebate the temporary-absence construction. On 1 April 2026 OFAC lifted her personal sanctions. AP recorded that Washington was recognising her as a legitimate authority after the 3 January operation, and that the original 90-day TSJ window was ending that week ([AP](https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-delcy-rodriguez-sanctions-maduro-d819e64fcdefa132c5b06c3ce0a81f88)). She remained acting president past that clock. Quote the lift. Do not invent a unique later election as Contribution.size. Diosdado Cabello’s 27 August 2024 interior appointment and later Operation Knock Knock sit as a neighbouring repression file. This run names him. ## Documented benefits The offsets that a commissioned-positive portrait would lead with are real only where dated. A 1 April 2026 personal-sanctions lift is a completed OFAC act. Oil-licence talk with Washington is neighbouring diplomacy. Neither converts the 2018 inner-circle designation into a democratisation certificate, and neither is a unique later popular mandate. ## Contributions and limits of responsibility Maduro named her vice-president. TSJ ordered the encargada. Jorge Rodríguez administered the oath. OFAC listed and later delisted. She took the 2018 office and the 2026 oath. Sharing a U.S. capture as parent is not a reason to drop the temporary-absence construction. Sharing a Trump counterpart is not a reason to hang a U.S. statute as her authorship. ## Causal chain through facts 25 September 2018 strengthens delcy-maduro-system-enforcer as a completed inner-circle designation. 5 January 2026 weakens electoral integrity and capacity for peaceful transfer as an encargada oath without an election. 1 April 2026 strengthens the same enforcer file as recognition of that continuity. None hang on [territorial-revisionism](/drivers/territorial-revisionism), ukraine-war, or Soviet-scope rows. ## What the score does not say This page does not promise an exact number. Direction is negative: 2018 SDN, 2026 encargada without election, remaining past 90 days. Diosdado Cabello and Jorge Rodríguez remain names on this file, not invented biographies. ## Dated facts - 2026: United States lifts personal OFAC sanctions on acting president Delcy Rodríguez. https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-delcy-ofac-lift-2026. Sources: https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-delcy-rodriguez-sanctions-maduro-d819e64fcdefa132c5b06c3ce0a81f88, https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions. - 2026: Delcy Rodríguez is sworn acting president under a TSJ temporary-absence order. https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-delcy-acting-president-2026. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-supreme-court-orders-delcy-rodriguez-become-interim-president-2026-01-04/, https://www.tsj.gob.ve/-/tsj-ordena-a-delcy-rodriguez-asumir-el-cargo-de-presidenta-e-tras-secuestro-del-primer-mandatario. - 2018: OFAC designates Delcy Rodríguez as Maduro inner-circle SDN. https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-delcy-ofac-2018. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/politics/us-venezuela-sanctions-maduro-wife/index.html, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm495. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/delcy-rodriguez